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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4266234" data-attributes="member: 19083">Saeviomagy,ever heard of a SAI ? Looks sort of like a small 1handed trident mixed with a dagger or iron bar club.Oriental weapon, came ot the fore withthe Okinawans, who were lorded over by the Japanese.To defeat the katana, the Okinawans used the Sai. Brilliant weapon for catching an opponents sword blade. Then you'd use your other sai to shatter the enemy's blade or just hit it so damned hard they'd drop it...or you'd break the swordsman's hand, wrist, skull or even stab him with the sai spike.Katana's are good wepaons, but, in a dirty street fight or close up battle, orin a dungeon, I'd rather have a cutlass you can stab with, or a gladius and a shield/armour <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Several samurai were known to have beenkilled when their long blades got stuck in the ceilings or walls of houses, inns etc.Each weapon has advantages, none is "the best".The very best weapons IMHO are the handaxe, staff, dagger, sling, spear, and crossbow.-Handaxe can be thrown or meleed, but most importantly it's *useful*, especially with a hammer back, for cutting logs, freeign trapped friends, hammering in pitons or whatever.-Quarterstaff is seriously one of the best weapons around, most folk don't realize this though. It's useful for many things, opening trpaped doors, a tent pole, lever, checkign water or mud depth, walking aid (do you know how many folk break their legs or ankles just walking on rough ground?!) etc.-Dagger, utility tool, close up dirty fights (grappling tight tunnels etc),  also good for bartering, before paper currency, a fine dagger could be easily traded.-Sling, far more lethal than realize, dirt cheap, lots of free ammo! if your'e good with it small game cna keep you form starving.-Crossbow, small game with blunt bolts, large game with broadheads, very accurate so you can assassinate someone from ambush (bows are horribly innacurate by comparison), IMHO, fantasy worlds would have equivalents of glassfibre for bow limbs (like superb elven woods etc).-Spear, with a baorspear, that is a cross peice below the blade, you cna kill large creatures without them pushing up the blade to eat you! Against armoured folk, if they don't have greaves, you can cripple them by stabbing their shins. You can form basic pike formations. Stab someone through an arrow slit. Some uses as per a quarterstaff. Stops charges. etc.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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